"Back in the late forties, directly after world war 2, an alien species came to Earth, right? Only, they had this virus, wanted to test it on humans, cause we were close to them. There's a kerfluffle with one of them not wanting to do it, but, end result, virus is released over manhattan." His fingers twitch on their own, as if trying to illustrate. "The Wild Card Virus. People get infected, and, like, out of every hundred who get hit, 90 die. Like, flat out, explode. Turn inside out, melt into solid materials, burst into flames, die in all sorts of wicked ways. Called Drawing the Black Queen. Of those remaining ten, one of them becomes a super powered Ace asshole. Liftin things, torching things, turnin' into elephants, that kinda thing. And the last nine, they go like me. Jokers. Deformed mutants."